News - Call Of Duty: Warzone 2i Is A Slap The Face
They just spent $69 billion on Activision, and as much as I want to believe that Phil Spencer is going to step in and demand that Cod starts respecting their player base again. I just don't think it's going to happen when you're a high-level corporate suit like him. No one can deny that this sets a horrible precedent for this franchise.
Call of Duty is trying to homogenize every release into a singular platform, the Call of Duty HQ, which I actually don't have a problem with at a baseline level due to the fact that MWW's, weapons camo grinds, and maps are carrying over to MW3. It's undeniably a good thing. That's maybe the saving grace of this entire game for me, and it's the one area where Activision is showing us at least a little respect for our time and money.
It makes me feel like the camo and weapon leveling grind wasn't a complete waste of time last year, which is a step up from every other Call of Duty ever made. Combining the content of these two games into a single experience isn't an inherently bad idea, but this level of copy-paste is not worth $70.
Regardless of the presence of a single-player campaign that feels identical to MW tws yet again This is Activision testing the waters and seeing how much they can get away with in terms of reskinned content. The entire existence of cod has been a shoving match between the player base and the multi-billion dollar corporation obsessed with nickel and diing its customers, and the fight is lost.
MW3 is going to dominate the sales charts, and don't be surprised when this becomes a trend moving forward when, after Treyarch's new Black Ops reboot releases in 2024, we see a Black Ops 2 DLC game just like MW3, released the year after. It's just too easy for them. It's a real-life infinite money glitch.
The only thing that makes me feel better is that the money isn't going to Bobby Codic anymore, and if you want to blame someone for all this, don't blame the YouTubers who bought the game and made thoughtful critiques about how this franchise can and should improve. Don't blame your fellow commenters on articles like these, the invested players that are taking the time to discuss the intricacies of the game and showing concern for the future of Codic; it's the fault of the microtransaction.
Zombies, that allow Activision to turn absolutely absurd profit margins on [__]. Cosmetics: they make more money selling rapper skins and weapon variants than they do selling the game itself. What incentive do they have to create a brand new experience when they know that all they have to do is release a homeland skin to meet their quarterly profit projections in one Fell Swoop?
Why would they give a [__] about game quality when they're making hundreds of millions off of black cells in the grindy battle passes and the $25 bundles in the shop? Why would they care about online discourse and people bitching about SPMM when it doesn't seem to impact their bottom line in any tangible way?
So should you buy MW3? I don't know do whatever you want because I think it's time that we start pointing fingers at the right things a boycott of the Call of Duty franchise would be about as effective as me trying to convince Kylie that we should hang my Skyrim posters in the living room it'll be met with an ey roll and yeah okay trying to convince people to not buy the game is a pointless Endeavor, because the Casual Cod player base that isn't even a part of the online discourse, will always outnumber you 100 to one but convincing your friends to pass on that 21 Savage bundle in favor of a brand new game might be a better use of your time games like Call of Duty are going to sell regardless, but maybe we still have a chance to change the economics of our favorite life service titles Maybe turning our noses up at the bundles and [__] like black Cel will send a message that while Cod does have a very committed player base, we care more about game quality than MTX throwaways, or at least pushing them to go free to play if they're going to maintain this same business model, maybe but [__] cat.
Bundle, where the [__] is my credit card, but what do you think of MW3? If the thought of playing Cod again makes you throw up in your mouth, check out my second channel opening up, which is the new home for my single-player open-world action adventure RPG content. That's a mouthful. I know I've been flopping back and forth on how I want to present my content, and I apologize for that, but this is what it is going forward: FPS stuff here, stuff over there; the plan isn't changing again.